Earlier today Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a press briefing to announce the opioid task force (video below). During the Q&A segment of the presser, Fox News Catherine Herridge asked AG Sessions if the FISA court abuses outlined by Chairman Devin Nunes, Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Chairman Chuck Grassley would be investigated by the DOJ.

Attorney General Sessions affirms the FISA court abuse by the DOJ and FBI will indeed be investigated and prosecuted and directed attention to Inspector General Michael Horowitz. [watch at 37:57 of video – prompted]

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However, this statement by Jeff Sessions IS NOT NEWS. This is exactly what those who have followed closely will note has been the direction since mid-year 2017. As AG Sessions affirms, IG Horowitz is NOT limited in scope. Horowitz is investigating *all* avenues of politicization within the DOJ and FBI and abuse therein; this includes FISA abuse.

Secondly, AG Sessions has previously stated his intention to get the DOJ back to the historic position of *not* discussing ongoing investigations. As such the response from General Sessions today is entirely in line with the two principles: 1) the IG is already investigating the FISA abuse as part of the original politicization investigation; and 2) that the DOJ supports that investigative path.

January 4th, 2018, an agreement was finally made between House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and DOJ Asst. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for complete disclosure of all unredacted documents AND a list of witnesses who Nunes wanted the HPSCI to question.

Included in those names was: FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who exchanged anti-Trump text messages during an affair and previously worked on the special counsel’s Russia probe; FBI general counsel James Baker, who was reassigned; FBI head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, whom ex-FBI boss James Comey testified made the decision not to brief Congress about the Russia case during last year’s election; and Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official reassigned after concealing meetings with figures involved in the dossier.

The January 4th agreement between Devin Nunes and Rod Rosenstein was made after a great deal of back-and-forth. Chairman Nunes then documented the agreement in a letter.

On January 8th, Bruce Ohr was demoted for the second time. [AND DOJ officials scheduled Bruce Ohr to be available to Devin Nunes on January 17th]

On January 9th, the DOJ provided the unredacted DOJ/FBI documents requested to Chairman Nunes; the documents the DOJ produced surrounded the Clinton-Steele Dossier and the FISA Title-1 application. The documents were assigned to a SCIF in the basement of the House. Those documents become the basis for Chairman Nunes to outline his memo; essentially a declassification request to the White House written by Trey Gowdy.

As a result of the agreement between Rod Rosenstein and Devin Nunes, one member from each side of the HPSCI aisle (one Democrat and one Republican) was permitted to review the original FISA application documents which included the Clinton-Steele dossier use therein.

Trey Gowdy and Adam Schiff were the two Intel committee members who reviewed. (Remember, this is January 9th, 2018) [Only Gowdy, Schiff, Ratcliffe and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte reviewed the original FISA documents]

A week later, January 16th, 2018, Chairman Nunes postponed the witness interview with DOJ official Bruce Ohr scheduled for the next day, January 17th.

Instead, on January 18th, 2018, the HPSCI voted to allow all members of the House to review the Nunes-Gowdy Memo created after the DOJ provided the documents (January 9th). [January 18th THROUGH February 2nd was #ReleaseTheMemo]

Now remember, throughout this time none of those prior agreed-upon FIVE witnesses (Strzok, Page, Priestap, Baker, Ohr) have been interviewed. Everyone’s attention shifted from witness testimony to the Memo; and as Democrat Eric Swalwell stated, no witness was interviewed. Period. [<- key point].

So to summarize so far: during January all the DOJ documents arrived, the HPSCI (Nunes) memo was written, released, declassified and released to the public on February 2nd, 2018 –but no witnesses testified. [Nunes Memo – Link]

So the question becomes:

How does the exact testimony (including quotes) of Bruce Ohr, and Bill Priestap become part of the Nunes Memo if neither Bruce Ohr or Bill Priestap was ever interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee?

Who is doing the interrogations of Bill Priestap and Bruce Ohr?

It’s not the HPSCI. It’s not the House Judiciary Committee and it’s not the Senate (Chuck Grassley). [Remember Grassley is relying on responsive FD-302’s provided by the FBI.]

See where this is going?

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has interviewed these witnesses and extracted testimony. This explains why Devin Nunes changed his approach after discussion with AAG Rod Rosenstein and was no longer in a hurry to interview the FIVE? (Strzok, Page, Ohr, Baker and Priestap).

Let me remind everyone that each of the aforementioned names is still within the system. Unlike Mike Kortan, David Laufman, Sally Yates, James Rybicki or Andrew McCabe, none of the five (Strzok, Page, Ohr, Baker, Priestap) have been removed. Peter Strzok is in FBI HR; Lisa Page is doing something; Bruce Ohr and James Baker are holding down chairs somewhere; and Bill Priestap is still Asst. FBI Director in charge of counterintelligence.

It doesn’t go unnoticed the media are transparently not following up on Peter, Lisa, Bruce Jim or Bill. No satellite trucks in front of their houses etc.; no pounding on their doors for comment etc. Nothing.

Further, ask yourself why Inspector General Michael Horowitz (or someone thereabouts) began to advance upon the entire ‘Trump operation’ with releases of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page text messages? Why them? Surely, other collaborative communication was also captured, yet we only heard of Page and Strzok. Why?

Here’s what is becoming transparently obvious. The fab-five are cooperating with the investigative unit of the OIG. All five of them.

The text message release was strategic. It was intended to substantiate the entire enterprise, put the ‘small group on notice’ and flush out the co-conspirators. The downstream exits of Kortan, Laufman, Rybicki, McCabe et al are evidence therein.

Additionally, the OIG (Horowitz) would want to keep the testimony of Page, Strzok, Ohr, Baker and Priestap away from the Democrat politicians, well known leakers, within the House Intelligence Committee (ie. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff) until he was certain their usefulness as witnesses was exhausted.

The reason for this is transparently simple. The OIG is a division inside the Department of Justice. During an internal investigation if the IG becomes aware of unlawful activity he/she is obligated to inform the AG (Sessions) or AAG (Rosenstein). He can’t ignore it and he cannot delay notification of it. Unlawful activity must be reported.

The IG does not have legal or prosecutorial authority – the IG must immediately refer unlawful activity to the proper authority; essentially to his boss. A DOJ prosecutor is then assigned to work with the IG and essentially creates a parallel investigation focused only on the law-breaking part. [That prosecutor could, likely would, then begin a Grand Jury proceeding; no-one outside the AG, AAG, and that prosecutor’s office would know.]

The prior testimony/statements to the IG by the fab-five would explain why AAG Rod Rosenstein was negotiating with Devin Nunes, and why Nunes came away from those negotiations with wind in his investigative sails.

The DOJ (Rod Rosenstein) needs to wall-off the politics (Devin Nunes) from the ongoing investigation (DOJ-OIG-Prosecutor) to preserve the integrity of his advancing and assembling case (including witness testimony). Understanding this, after a review of the FISA documents – Nunes dropped/postponed his demand for immediate testimony by the fab-five to the HPSCI. [A record is already established]

As a person familiar with such specific investigative measures recently shared:

“They are sat down, told to not do anything, say anything or discuss anything UNTIL they get an attorney. At which time, the attorney is handed a letter from the investigating unit. That letter says in essence, this is how screwed you are. If you want to be less screwed you will sign this letter of cooperation and assist us. When we don’t need you, you sit there. When we do we will call you and you will provide what we need. Any deviation from this agreement lands you in jail for the full term.”

Additionally regarding Bruce and Nellie Ohr:

“The Republican memo states they turned over all their work and testified to someone that Bruce Ohr met with Christopher Steele and Steele was saying he didn’t want Trump in office. They didn’t testify to a Congressional committee, so it had to be the IG.”

All of the news and information coming forward, including the withdrawal of the request for the Democrat memo, aligns with a very specific fact pattern. Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Baker, Bill Priestap, Bruce Ohr and likely Nellie Ohr, have cut some kind of deal with the IG for process leniency in exchange for cooperation.

The Five have provided the IG and the DOJ with sworn statements and testimony which is highlighted in investigative communication between the DOJ and Chairman Nunes; and we see snippets surfacing in the Nunes memo.

That perspective explains everything seen and not seen.

It is likely the final investigative summary from the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG), Michael Horowitz, is going to be very encompassing:

And have you looked at what’s happened to the dimocraps and their party since the 2010 mid-terms? Even the axis powers won a few battles on their way to extinction during WWII. I suggest taking the bigger picture into view.

I seem to remember an article Sundance wrote about the Alabama election being like another state which was heavily demoncrat and they lost because they thought they had it in the bag and didn’t GOTV. Another time he was right!!

So, unfortunately I am a little hesitant to think we will end up with 60 in the Senate at this point…I sure hope I’m wrong.

No, I don’t think the Dems were that complacent. They always get riled up for the presidential election. Hillary would have seen a greater turnout of their Dem female base. Some would have been disgruntled because of Sanders, but they’re not coming back to the Dems if they still support Sanders and think the primary race was stolen from him.

They always bring the buses in – this is what has to stop. I don’t care if a National Guard soldier is at every polling place, or in the blue states send in ICE, FBI, DHS. Department of Homeland Security certainly has a right to be there – ensuring our election integrity.

IMO there was a lot of cheating by the Dims in that election as well as in 2016, which I do not think will succeed now that the Trump Administration has put into place more judges. Also, Moore was a candidate with much baggage so he was not insurmountable but the Dim win was too outside of statistical expectations. There was a lot of cheating then, but well before November the DHS is supposed to release its report of illegal shenanigans that “gave” Hitlery the popular vote, and will show that she didn’t even win that.

Also IMO I believe that the Dims are so close to the cliff over their overplayed hand re the gun control issue and the very suspicious tragedy at Parkland. Too much there aligns with further Dim false flag. The dopey Obama DOJ program leads to no criminal reports making background checks useless. The Hitlery/Obama politicians within Broward PO and the school district. The “all-of-a-sudden” elevation of students who were conveniently tied to insiders like David Piglet (FBI and CNN), and insiders (like Nellie Ohr) fronting the funding for the political activities before there were funerals. It wasn’t the Sheriff’s office that went into action, it was the Dim PACS. Too many normal people will not allow Dims to gain all that much. It’s the already Commie Dims who live in the Commie districts who are safe.

I thought Roy Moore would win here by a landslide, I believe he did win, just not by enough to over come all the illegal votes Democrats always get in every state in the country. I hate to say it, but it was probably a good thing Moore lost, regardless, Mo Brooks will be Alabama’s new Senator in a few months, and those Republicans who didn’t get out and vote for Moore, because he is a lightening rod, will get out and vote for Brooks I believe.

Isn’t the race contested again in 2020? Thought the seat goes until then. You’re right about the fraudulent voting though. Moore had just enough baggage that too many people stayed home to overcome the Dem vote fraud. GOP can’t afford those kinds of tantrums.

Why would you want to take a good House representative out of the House and place him in the Senate? If you do that only one small district can vote on who replaces him. Better to keep him where he is, and let the whole state vote on a new senator, so we can hopefully have a good representative in both.

….no wonder America’s conservative movement is in such a sorry state. Here at CTH we have what is arguably “the best reporter in America today”, according to author John Cashill (“If I Had a Son”), as posted in “American Thinker” just yesterday…

…a man more and more media are referencing and quoting more than ever before…

…who CAREFULLY and in great detail lays out his documentary evidence, timelines, links…

….meticulously lays out his reasoning and logic surrounding same…

…carefully sets reasonable expectations and prognostications….

…has been PROVEN both accurate and deeply insightful TIME after TIME after TIME…

…for YEARS!!…

….whose webstie has won annual award after annual award…

….and some people actually have the cajons to come onto his blog, utterly ignore all that, and effectively say he’s wrong and FOS.

Proof positive that some horses who find water simply won’t take a drink, despite the fact that it’s staring them right in the face. They’d rather die of thirst.

Well it takes a lot of reading to keep up with it all , and you can tell by a persons post if they have read enough to know what they are posting . DJT campaigned on draining the swamp , even before those words were coined and he knew he had to have a strong AG . Trump picked him and if he wasn’t on it he would be gone . .

You didn’t even notice how easy he recused himself , that’s how he drew Rosenstein into the net ,. then Brennen , now Clapper , Its coming , the FISA court gets the sunshine .

Agreed 1000%, been trying to convince others at work about my theory on Sessions, that he recused himself 1)to appear bi-partisan 2)get Rosenstein in there to have others (such as the fab 5) to relax and make them feel like they are good to go now. As far as the Sessions announcement yesterday, I watched and listened to everyone flip out and I was like chill they’re already investigating this and the announcement is just to get the public ready for the IG’s release and the ensuing charges that will be brought.

I have faith in Sessions and PDJT, this is personal to them and they both have much to gain in restoring the reputations of the presidency and the DOJ.

TY For God and Country,
I have my own suspicions that involve twitter. SD has an amazing presence there with @TheLastRefuge2. It is a different animal, people behave differently, sometimes downright ahh,,,, viciously. There may be some that find their way here, and pretty much keep up the same kind of nonsense. Twitter delivers stuff in tiny bites, factoids, links etc, not articles… Maybe some people just don’t take the time to read,, SMH… it is a shame really.. I can only imagine what the moderators are going through… hmmmmm

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. They will descend in droves here this summer when college kids are off for the season and work to create constant discord and infighting. I have witnessed it repeatedly on conservative discussion boards from their earliest days.

No kidding. SD lays out the evidence, no one is being interviewed before the House committee but there are statements from people who are being investigated…how did we get the information from if they aren’t talking to someone.
We have a real leader in the White House. He said he was going to give the government back to it’s people. I have no reason to doubt that PDJT will make sure that the people who have corrupted every agency in government will be charged and tried.

SD laid out a marvelous and coherent theory on the state of affairs and the doings at the senior levels of the DOJ a family the upcoming IG report probing all of it from Michael Horowitz.

No one can get it all right but sometimes I ask who some of his sources might be as he gets a tremendous amount correct on both domestic and foreign policy. No one else I see out there is coming close.

Here we are though with folks doing a lot of handwringing on this thread, nature of the beast I guess. Folks simply don’t understand or forget November is a lifetime away in politics.

President Trump has a plan. He is a brilliant and I mean absolutely brilliant strategist.
It’s all coming together at EXACTLY the right time. As they say, timing is everything in politics friends

Pull up a chair and get the popcorn ready for the show. Our Republic is in for a helleva ride and the curtain is about to go up. People are about to learn why the Hon. AG Jeff Sessions is called the Silent Executioner. His Senate colleagues turned on him like manic hyenas; they were scared to death. They had nothing on him (but they tried to make something up) and knew what he is capable of doing.

From the video SD posted, I see calm, steady and professional leadership from Jeff Sessions. It gives me faith, urges more prayer and inspires more confidence. Believe SD is right on track overall. Now, if I could claim understanding of Ron Rosenstein. Sense he’s been turned from his going with the tide and give. A chance to make good. Just another touch of genius from the Patriots in charge. God bless and be with them all.

The dark side of confirmation bias is strong indeed. Facts, evidence and the truth must be systematic, controlled, released of over considerable time. To get the resistance, progressives, liberals and faithful of the MSM/dems to see the light means, deep down in their heart and soul, they must admit DJT was right all along. Many will never admit this regardless of the tidal wave of evidence.

Class action law suits in FL filed against the DNC for misappropriation of funds.

In this article, they allege that the Awan Brothers were doing work on the side for Hillary For America PAC, were conducting social media attacks on Bernie Supporters (like certain Russian groups were accused of doing) and were involved with moving money to Podesta.

I read somewhere the investigator for Awan is somehow related indirectly to DWS. Also, if Horowitz has to submit his findings of illegal activities to Rosenstein, then I have no confidence there will be any jail time for anyone. Rosenstein has connections and History with McCabe, Mueller, Comey, and Hillary. That says enough for me not to trust him.

I’m aware that the CRIMES that have been revealed over the past many months are CRIMES this Nation has truly never been exposed to – at the level and the technology at hand. With that in mind – the prosecution of these crimes are not going to be revealed nor exposed to the population until said crimes have been investigated thoroughly. PATIENCE for all of us needs to be respected for the time being. Leaking AND speaking of such crimes compromises these Criminal Cases. I WANT and WE NEED every one of these scoundrels (and traitors), indicted, incarcerated, charged, convicted AND incarcerated! In whatever order those occur is non-issue! EVERY one of these conspirators NEEDS to be punished! – one way or the other! Each of their Juries MUST be throughout the US Territories – Never in DC!

It isn’t so complicated. Release the FISA warrants and requests and unmasking and bingo there are all the sabotuers and criminals. How long could that take. An afternoon to review and issue indictments for misleading the courts usingf false documents…Boom then the snowball rolls downhill… Why is this so hard.

It’s HARD Freddie because there are so many co-conspirators! I have no idea how you do not see this? 8 YEARS of lawlessness which perpetuated much like a nuclear meltdown! Departments run as Political factories…hiring….behaving poorly….behaving illegally. I could make this response much more in word count but I encourage you to simply search this site and the facts will be revealed quickly …..

At the end of the day, the only thing that keeps this whole thing working is that We the People believe it works. The kind of corruption that is being revealed, if done too quickly, could legitimately destroy enough faith in the system that panic & chaos could take over. Like the legal and social equivalent to the run on the banks and the stock market crash leading to the Great Depression. The trick here is to expose enough of the corruption to make it clear that it exists but in such a way that it is being dealt with by The System.

The problem is, they have been abusing the FISA system since the passage of the PATRIOT ACT. They use “parallel construction” to create a case based on evidence other than the FISA evidence that they can present at trial, but the “other evidence” was gleaned from the FISA evidence. How many will be released from prison? THAT is part of the “snowball rolling downhill.” Also, it will destroy the FBI, and maybe the DOJ along with it. Worshippers of government institutions will be loathe to do this.

If I have been taking notes accurately here, I seem to remember that IG Horowitz was set to this task during the last days of the Obama administration. My first thought upon learning that was that the IG was going to go through to find the loose threads and clean them up.
Then I learned that the IG had been kept on a very short leash during his tenure and had been prevented from doing his job in some cases.
So a new administration comes in with one of its “Prime Directives” to Drain the Swamp.
The new AG tells the IG to leave no stones unturned.
IG feels vindicated and redoubles the efforts.
AG says I need to recuse myself.
He never said anything about putting the IG back on a short leash.
So now as the IG is completing his “novel”, the AG can say we have no choice but to prosecute A through Z based on these referrals.

Or so I hope. Although I am ready for the “hangings to commence”, the delay does give me time to become more proficient with my “long handled” shovels. With any luck, they will be able to stay in the “shed” and become well oiled dust collectors.

Again, my observation is AG recusal is all about the short coming of special prosecutors. Which is to say special prosecutor suffer from the fallacy of prosecuting charges they themselves investigated, it becomes ego trip. Proving themselves right in the eyes of their own investigation. Results, are too easily spun.

By recusing himself, AG Sessions has no Id in the game, his procecuting approach to the charges is not biased in having an emotional attachment to the investigation. He is at least free from counter spin.

Just find them on the web by doing image searches. It has been made much more difficult to grab them and cross reference similar images by Google and Twitter and Facebook …..all of them have implemented countermeasures against image searches and grabbing URL’s with the pretense being protecting image “copyright”. But the real reason is interference in the meme war, because Trump supporters are a hundred times better at memes and are literally blowing away the opposition, cause most of their memes are really lame. Libtards are outmatched and outgunned in the meme war and it hurts snowflakes feefees who are all butt hurt about it.

If Sessions is really serious then a response and frontal attack by Mueller should come soon as a diverion. Sessions needs Mueller n_t sack in his hand right now to prevent a full assault on DJT. Mueller is a hit man and will do his job. We all have known that I guess jeff missed the memo……..If it wasn’t SD writing this scenario with all the FBI clowns cooperating and Sessions about to drop the hammer I’d never consider it…………

Remember during the Lewinski scandal clinton saw to it that the press would record him coming out of a church after the Sunday service with a Bible in his hand? I just saw bubba on the color television set where he visited the casket of Billy Graham. Slick willie gave me the impression a turd in a snowbank. The clinton’s are all about optics. I believe this is a preemptive optic for the coming legal onslaught against lyin’ Bill. Just the same as that time the clintons allowed the press to tape them dancing on the beach together on the eve of the Lewinski scandal.

I still think she will fly the coop. Then again, she may be so delusional that she thinks she is invincible.
Many of the Treepers are wondering when something is going to be done. I say to look for HRC to take a vacation in a non-extradition country and/or find out a week when the US Marshall Service is not granting any leave or vacation.
I think I will stop typing now.

While it's good that AG Sessions is probing FISA abuse, this should be done by a special counsel, not the inspector general. The latter lacks prosecutorial authority and will take forever and a day to reach conclusions. We need action now!

Yes, Mr. Guiliani is hawking identity protection for some company to protect you from “the dark web”. They are offering a free “dark web” scan to see if your name comes up (so that you need protection, natch).
He has been globe-trotting for the past 15 years doing all sorts of business activities. Evidently it is way too complicated for him to serve in the administration -too many potential conflicts of interest.

Giuliani was considered a potential candidate for New York Governor in 2010[8][9] and for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.[10] Giuliani declined all races, and instead remained in the business sector.[11][12][13]

On January 12, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump named Giuliani his informal cybersecurity adviser.[14]

If I understood it correctly the existence of a grand jury connected with the IG investigation was essentially confirmed during the Wray testimony to the HSCI on Dec7,2017. Perhaps someone who is better qualified to understand what is being said could take a look but if you watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXtdKiiLVro from about 0:53:30 to 0:58:00 it appears that both Goodlatte and Wray confirm it.

I’m not better qualified to understand what is being said. But, with that said, it sure sounded like they were concerned about tainting or jeopardizing the OIG investigation as it relates to the Grand Jury.

My sense is that when the OIG finishes his investigation and prepares his report, he will present his findings to the DOJ and the relevant Congressional Committee(s).

Based on those findings, I believe the DOJ will use this info to present to the Grand Jury to issue Indictments and at that point the Fireworks begin and they will “Un-ring that Bell” (see 1:00 mark of your referenced video).

I get what your saying and while that could be the case, for sure, I don’t think they were confirming that a grand jury was already convened to look at this. I got the sense that they were speaking in general terms since once a grand jury gets involved those documents become evidence and can’t be released.

It is another investigation that is paralleling the work of Horowitz. As already stated, the IG has no ability to bring charges but only to produce evidence of any crimes. Therefore he has colleagues that he basically can turn over his finding to this person from the parallel investigation.

This is all good news from Sessions and Sundance. However the Demosocialist crooks are starting a counter offensive, called National Security Action, as reported on by Vachel Lindsay on Twitter. As Vachel says it has all fingerprints of Obama and Jarrett all over it. Other people in the inner cabal have also been tweeting about it like Susan Rice and Ben Rhoades. Please give it a look and respond to the them with the facts. Me thinks they’re getting worried but they will also react like hornet’s nest that’s been disturbed.

Now how do we find someone at DoJ/FBI who isn’t tainted by Anti Trumpgate? All of them knew and at the very least said / did nothing.
Anyone doing such an investigation will be sure he has no future at DoJ / FBI when the UniParty again owns Washington.
Bring in the Nome police department.

While I AGREE with Sundance that I believe Page, Strzok & Priestap are cooperative witnesses ( they have to be) I disagree that OHR has flipped. My reading of OHR’s information comes from his interview(s) with the FBI as stated .i.e. he provided all of wifes records to the FBI and”Steeles bias was recorded by OHR and is CONTAINED in the FBI files”.. That said, I do believe there is a HIGH probability that OHR has been interviewed by the IG. IF these POS are co-oping …..the show is OVER!

The appearance of AG Sessions still drawing breath and moving on his own gives me a degree of hope. Observing all the shaking of the branches in TCTH with the positive comments from most of the tree-huggers is real encouraging. I’m a bit sorry I slammed the AG – – Sorry Jeff! I’ll get the wheelbarrow out and patrol the neighborhood to collect enough crows for my promised menu for my meal of penance. I guess I should have paid more attention to Sundance. Later!

1.5 million documents.
How many man-hours does it take to read all that?
How many man-hours does it take to sort and compile the relevant documents to be used a criminal proceeding?
Perhaps some impatient folks here think that everyone in the country took the Evelyn Woodhead speed reading course 40 or 50 years ago.

So why doesn’t Sessions just say that? Instead, he talks as though he never received the docs. Why does he say he *will* investigate instead of he *is* investigating? There’s no rule against that. What’s he waiting on?

My understanding is that Sessions recuses himself in anything “Campaign” and “Russia”. He only makes announcement and cannot be involved with the actual decision making regarding the FISA abuse investigation because that is all about “Campaign” and “Russia.”

Sessions didn’t even say *he* will investigate. He said *it* will be investigated, and then immediately indicated that it’s part of the IG investigation, which, as we all know, has no prosecutorial power.

I thought those docs were delivered to the Judiciary Committee, not Sessions. I understood the structure to be that anything the IG finds that significant findings are reported to the DOJ immediately and everything else is in the report. Did they deliver all the docs to Judiciary and DOJ?

H&HC
Im in the same boat. i want to believe that Sessions is doing what he is supposed to, but “optics” say that he has his thumb up his butt. I really wrestle with this but I think that PDJT, while he cannot order any indictments, has made Sessions understand what is at risk and what must be done. Sessions must be mindful of the timing of it all and ensure that this thing explodes just before the primaries in the fall. Conversely, all the demorats(NOT misspelled) are aware of the timing and are probably doing everything they can to slow walk this until after the elections so they can tamp it down. I pray Sessions has the tenacity to do this, regardless of how ugly it gets, and is willing to take this fight all the way to Obama. If this is all successfully executed and all these clowns are locked up, the democrat party will be on life support and the United States has a genuine chance of returning to a constitutional republic.

With the continued plea of have faith and patience about the Horowitz report, I for one am more interested in the Awan case.

Google up… Luke Rosiak for his almost exclusive coverage on Congressional IT Awan.

What this guy and family was doing for almost a decade is unbelievable.

Almost everything about this guy’s activies is a scandle way beyond anything emailgate and muh russia. IMHO, they are intra-connected.

If you are frustrated by the pace of the Horowitz investigation and such, how about the crickets of zilich reporting on IT Awan other Rosiak’s articles.

Dear Luke… I think you are tip towing around the true nature of this guys activities, this guy wasn’t running an espionage operation for Pakistan, he was running an internal sourcing of raw Congressional Intel to feed back to HRC, ie HRC was spying on Congress.

Just look at the key players and how unquestioning many of the Democratic subscribers to his IT services and their stonewalling definance to any investigation of his activies.

We may never know the content of the 30,000 missing freedom of information actionable public email records of HRC, but as sure as the day is long, the backbone connection that enabled the server’s contection to the internet was most definately an ISP that can be subpoena.

HRC, like Gore didn’t invent the internet, nor did she own the infrastucture that was the land line for delivering the content to the server. If an average email, in plain text length is about 1kb, a very generous asumption, then 30,000 emails equates to about 30Mb to very specific protocall ports.
What does a subpoena say about the bandwidth usage, including content that initiated from http requests that orginates from within an embedded email link, of transported data to HRC email server show.

If the bandwidth usage shows 500+ Mb of data, something is not quite right, meaning that many of the servers email contain links to large data files.
If Awan activies was to feed raw Congressional Intel back to HRC as I have suggested then an ISP subpoena should show this.

The same can be said, about HRC phones and devices. HRC did not put the satellites up in orbit. For crying out loud, for a country that did not invented algebra but sure as hell figured out what to do with it. Mathematically an audit of bandwidth usage vs content analysis should say something directly about HRC usage habits.

Why has everyone here forgotten that the IG office committed to release 1.2 million documents to the DOJ, and in turn, release them to the Congressional Committees back on January 15, 2018?

So Sessions already HAS all the OIG docs he needs. So why still no indictments? What is going on??

Watch here for yourself.

Chairman Bob Goodlatte notes the following:

I thank you for the documents that were provided to us yesterday. There are, as you know, many, many more. I think 1.2 million documents that the Inspector General has. We have a commitment from the assistant Attorney General, Mr. Boyd [Office of Legislative Affairs] to provide those by January 15, [2018].

Why does Sessions keep talking like he’s waiting on the IG? Why does he say “there will be an investigation?” What’s he been doing the last month? From what I read, the AG had 1 week to give his recommendation how to move forward after receiving the IG report on January 15.

Then perhaps the American people should get back to reading their bibles more. Judgment is coming, whether we see it in this lifetime or not.

Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

The institution of human government is ordained of God. Therefore, everyone that has ever lived will have to give account not only for their personal life, but government employees will have to give account for how they administered their positions. A lot of speculation and criticism goes on here about how our leaders are doing. Us spectators on the sidelines have to give account for ourselves, not them. Past performances (letting people skate away) is not going to be so easy this time. The chapters of the book “The Presidency of Donald J. Trump” are still being written and most of the commenters here are not involved in it’s production.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

2Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

As for characters like Lois Lerner, etc. I would like to offer an example from the Showtime series “Billions”. A corrupt judge was told by a DA that his office (representing a specific district) would not prosecute if the judge would retire quietly. At the retirement party, he was arrested and charged for using his position for financial gain. The DA did not lie, he merely had another DA from a different district bring the charges.

All of these people are going to take the fall for the one person not named on here, Hilary Clinton. She is the one that should be at the top of the list that has broken law after law, and has gotten away with it while we prosecute and jail a United States Sailor who took pictures on the submarine he was serving this great Nation on. But Hilary, who removed secret files from a secure place and intentionally broke the law many times over doesn’t even get a reprimand! Until this changes and serving Congressmen, Senators, and any Untied States government official is held to the same standard as any United States citizen, our government will never get any better or less corrupt!

I wonder if Nunes should have focused more on the credibility issue, rather than who was paying Steele. Hard to see how third hand gossip is the basis of a Title1 FISA warrant. Plus it would have spotlighted how phony ALL the Russia stuff is.. Also it appears Manafort was under surveillance too but Nunes hasn’t said…

The IG can investigate the DOJ and can compel testimony apparently, but he can’t investigate Hillary, Fusion GPS, Glen Simpson, Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, or anyone in the Obama administration outside the DOJ, or compel their testimony. Only a prosecutor can do that. A prosecutor can find out everything the IG can find out, but has powers far superior to the IG in terms of the people he can question and the tools available to him like a grand jury. So the only thing that makes sense here is a prosecutor. Sessions response is actually worrisome, because apparently he sees the solution to the FISA problem in an investigation by the IG. That’s not the solution. Also, just to be clear, he said there “will be” an investigation, but didn’t mention potential prosecutions.

Like Rep Desantis said, a special counsel should be appointed. The FBI cannot conduct a credible criminal investigation of its own, especially of Rosenstein who signed off on the 4th warrant application that contained false information. There’s no way a subordinate can investigate a second-in-command like Rosenstein. That’s like asking a police officer to investigate the chief of police. Sessions is slinging bs and stalling. This is not an internal investigation, or a matter of restoring the public’s confidence in the DOJ and FBI. It’s an investigation of the political crime of the century. Sessions is not treating it that way.

OK, I have just one problem with this. If the OIG scope is “very encompassing,” and if Devin Nunes “came away with wind in his investigative sails” after meeting with Rosenstein, and if Nunes’ “understands” that he had to be “walled off” from the DOJ-OIG-prosecutor investigation, then why does Nunes say very specifically, during his recent interview with Maria Bartiromo(1);

“As I understand it, this (referring to the OIG investigative report) is really only looking at the Clinton E-mail scandal, it’s NOT looking at all the other problems.”

Is Nunes now intentionally trying to obscure the full scope of the current OIG investigation to keep the rats from scurrying away too quickly or does Nunes truly believe that the OIG scope is limited only to the Clinton email investigation? Is he in the know as SD portends, or is he not?
(1) See Nunes interview with Bartiromo posted by SD on 2/26; at 5:15 in second video.

The IG formally announced his email investigation in Jan. 2017. He explained it would be an all-encompassing review of how the investigation was conducted, but would not question the prosecutorial judgments made. And the assumption all along was that he would issue his report sometime early this year.

There has been no announcement of an IG investigation into the DOJ’s handling of the FISA matter. There is nothing to prevent the IG from announcing an investigation into FISA. Unlike criminal investigations which require secrecy, the IG’s investigations are administrative in nature, i.e. were the proper steps followed. As such, there is no requirement of secrecy. So that fact that he hasn’t announced an investigation into FISA tells me he hasn’t started one yet. In that regard, read Sessions’ statement from yesterday: “Yes it (FISA) will be investigated. And I think that’s just the appropriate thing the inspector general will take that as one of the matters he’ll deal with.” Notice everything is in the future — it “will be” investigated. So there doesn’t seem to be any official confirmation that the IG is currently investigating FISA. I think Nunes is right. I’m guessing the IG wants to complete the email review before he starts in on the FISA review.

If the OIG follows the normal investigative authorization procedure, then the IG will make a formal announcement specifying the scope of his investigation regarding Sessions’s announcement yesterday about FISA abuse, just as what he did in his Jan. 12, 2017 announcement regarding the on-going IG investigation.

The OIG’s Jan. 12, 2017 announcement was very specific about its scope. It only concerns the Clinton email matter, that is, FBI Director’s public announcement on July 15, 2016 and letters to Congress on Oct. 28 and Nov. 6, 2016. Nunes was right when he said last Sun that the OIG’s on-going investigation probably only addressed the Clinton email matter.

Since an investigation on FISA abuse will be a new OIG investigation, a new OIG announcement on this new investigation should be announced if Sessions follows through what he said yesterday.

And since Sessions recuses himself from anything “Campaign” and “Russia”, and the FISA abuse matter is all about “Campaign” and “Russia”, it would be a breach of his recusal decision if he participates in making a decision regarding the FISA abuse investigation. Since Rosenstein is also in conflict as he approved one of the FISA warrant renewal application and DOJ’s #3 is leaving, it will be interesting to see who at DOJ will take charge of this matter.

President Trump backs up my take on this whole mess. Sessions is trying to downplay, cover up & run out the clock, just like the rest of the Swamp creatures he’s allegedly pursuing.

“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!” Trump wrote.”

REPORTS ALREADY LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is Trump talking. Quit talking your book & listen TO HIM.

Only way Sessions is innocent is if he now opens a special prosecutor investigation prompted by Trump’s statement. Anything else is prima facie PROOF OF COLLUSION BY SESSIONS!!!!!!!

It’s right in front of you. Quit stroking your ego. This is going to end in guns if Trump is ignored.

Does it ever occur to anyone besides me that this feigned public outrage by PDJT against the AG might just be a well-orchestrated “show” for public consumption? As mentioned here many times, “timing is everything”. I would not be surprised if after the IG report comes out there is another press conference. The subject of which is Mr. Sessions “reluctantly” agreeing to appoint another Special Counsel.

It might be, and it might not.
But we do know P Trump has consistently expressed his dissatisfaction with the AG. We know that P Trump wouldn’t have appointed him AG, if Sessions apprised the president of the recusal. We also know that P Trump is politically stuck with this AG since it would be near impossible to get the Senate to approve a replacement who would be tough on swamp draining.

I have a legit question for sd. No snark whatsoever. Sessions always reverts back to the upcoming IG report for Horowitz, and everyone seems to think thats really gonna be the bomb, but how can anybody trust Horowitz since he was nominated by Oboma and has been the IG since 2012. If you ask me, its taking so long to get the report because he’s a master of cover up. The reports gonna have a few small bombs, be about 10,000 pages long with lots of redaction, it will be debated in congress for a few months, covered over and forgotten in about 6 months by uniparty repubs. And AG Sessions will still have that dumb uncomfortable face when asked about any of this, and always fall back to “no comment on investigations”, or “still waiting for more from the OBOMA APPOINTED IG HOROWITZ”

Yep. And some folks here call you a troll if you question AG Session’s competence or willingness.

Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!

I keep reading your posts here about how Sessions has things perfectly under control. That the IG Report – which, as much as it’s hyped on this blog and in other places – better be not just blockbuster, it better be unmistakably criminal. Given the history of IG reports over the last 40 years of being mostly toothless, verbose diatribes that generally come to nothing – seems you’re taking a rather huge leap of faith that Horowitz is about to unleash the Mother Of All Reports. Name one other IG report that did what you assume this one will do. I’ll wait.

And if Sessions is so in command, why does Trump continually unload on his competence regularly on Twitter and elsewhere? Your theory and Trump’s actions don’t square. At all. To publicly undermine his own Attorney General simply cannot be good. Trump has a point. An IG has no power whatsoever. They cannot prosecute, convene a Grand Jury, issue indictments. Nothing. For Sessions to turn this over to the IG is – let’s be charitable – suspect.

Over the last 40 years, we did have Ronald Reagan, who was off roaring until that assassination attempt slowed him down. He was also hampered by swamp creatures, most notably GHW “New World Order” Bush.

So, I would have to respectfully disagree because of PDJT today This is NOT “business as usual” in D.C.; despite the 40 years of precedent that you correctly cite.

For the most part, the media is nothing but a socialist propaganda spewing cesspool.(Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” – deflect by accusing the other side what YOU are actually doing).
The 25 major newspapers in the USA were bought up back when the “Federal Reserve system” was foisted upon us. The audio and visual media outlets were consolidated during the WJC years.

Think about it – the NRA is blamed for something that every one of it’s members does not do. Mark Levin is correct- why do we (republicans/conservatives) continue to allow the left to define the narrative so we are constantly on the defensive???

Just keep on waiting cause it will never come. Sessions is not the white knight he is the Trojan Horse who allowed Rosenstien and Mueller to take over. Impossible that was a mistake…No chess game no grand jury no secret investigations nothing nada except wait for Mueller to destroy enough real evidence and compile a nice little new dossier of Trumps Russia crimes. In a year Trump will be a cooked goose and Sessions will have done it…………

The OIG is currently looking ONLY at compliance to procedures and processes associated with the Hillary email investigation and he has successfully delayed release of that report. Devin Nunes confirmed the scope of the IG’s review during his Maria Bartiromo interview.

Jeff Sessions WILL (that means in the future) direct the OIG (no prosecutorial power) to conduct a review into FISA court practices. His last investigation has taken over a year and the report is still not complete.

To any one not completely sullied with political bias it is readily apparent that the real criminals are being treated with kid gloves, while threats to the establishment (read PDJT) are immediately set upon by a rabid Special Council and his pack of dogs. How long did it take Rosenstein to appoint dirty cop Mueller …5-minutes?

There is an abundance of evidence already substantiated by testimony and by members of Congress to support at least the DOJ’s own prosecutors investigating documented FISA court abuse that began this Special Counsel nightmare. There is an entire book documenting multiple Clinton bribes and pay-to-play transactions vis-à-vis Uranium One as well, with Mueller’s filthy paw-prints all over that particular scandal. But, the malodorous deeds of establishment aristocrats don’t seem to draw the same interest.

PDJT has every right to be disgusted. He was never a professional politician and his paradigm is not one that is filtered through a twisted political prism. He expected he would meet resistance, but didn’t expect it come from his own foxhole. The President just wants a fair fight. So far, his feeble AG refuses to allow it.

Somebody please convince me this tweet from Trump is just a bit of misdirection to throw the dogs off the scent and convince me that it’s still really necessary that those at risk don’t already know exactly what’s going on….

9:34 AM – 28 Feb 2018
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!

Just playing the devil’s advocate here, but what if the country can’t handle draining the swamp?

I know this isn’t what most here want to read, but just consider, for a moment, what could happen. Let’s say the IG report comes out, lots of people are charged, and they start spilling the beans on other corruption. Let’s just assume, for a moment, that it’s roughly as bad as we expect (and, honestly, I imagine it’s actually far, far worse). What if deep state forces actually did kill JFK? What if they discussed assassinating Trump? What if we found out about coups we carried out in other countries, the full extent of warrantless wiretapping and spying on innocent Americans, and the abuse of innocent people by prosecutors abusing power? What if, instead of draining the swamp, it’s more like a giant zit that pops?

I’m just throwing this out there, but we should recognize that this is a dangerous undertaking. Sure, in a perfect world, we’d excise all this corruption and it would turn out well. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a world where the money in our pockets is backed by nothing other than the “full faith and credit” or the government that issues it.

How much “faith” would we have in our government after this comes out? Maybe it wouldn’t change the minds of many here – many of us have little faith in this government, anyway. But most people have more than us, as do most foreign governments and foreign nationals who use our fiat currency as the world reserve currency.

A massive decline in the faith of our government could greatly weaken the dollar, and the ramifications of that are enormous. Think about the national debt (we have to keep making payments on it, even if we wish it didn’t exist), mortgages, credit cards, the banking system, the debt financing of almost every employer in the country, retirement plans, et cetera, et cetera.

I say this not to suggest we shouldn’t drain the swamp, but to suggest that there is a world of difference between draining it and blowing it up.

Yes, it’s necessary to drain the swamp, if we are to succeed as a nation. However, the odds of success are not all that solidly in our favor. In fact, I’d say those who are trying to drain the swamp should recognize that this is like threading a fast-moving needle with a thread moving at Mach 10. Any error could be catastrophic. This isn’t an exaggeration – there is literally a case to be made that it’s almost better to stick with the status quo than to fix it. The status quo probably leads to collapse in 20 – 50 years (in my view), whereas draining the swamp might will either cause collapse to happen sooner or, if it goes well, fix it. I wish I felt the odds were 90/10 in favor of fixing it, but I’m guessing it’s more like 50/50, maybe not even that.

I hope what we’re seeing, in terms of slow action on the parts of Sessions, Horowitz, and others, is the result of carefully considering how difficult an operation it is that they’re undertaking. This is not some simple case of taking out the bad guys and letting the good guys take over. To wit, after we won World War II, we didn’t let Nazis into the new government, and things started to go south. Ultimately, we had to let some of them – the ones that were less bad – be involved, because they knew where the bodies were buried (both figuratively and literally). Maybe, just as we see Priestap, Strzok, Page, et al still employed, it will be necessary to let a lot of black hats stay in place, while severely punishing others so they know this type of corruption can’t happen again.

I wish this were a simple undertaking, but it’s not. If you’re eager to see the arrests and convictions, please keep this all in mind. We saw what happened in Iraq when we had a great plan for taking down the dictatorship but a poor plan for rebuilding. Taking down the deep state is no different – if there’s not a solid plan regarding what to do both during and after the metaphorical statue is toppled, the result will be chaos.

We already have the plan to rebuild our Republic. It is called the Bill of Rights & Constitution.
We are far overdue to start applying it, instead of disregarding it or only pulling it out and consulting it when it is convenient (think Robert Byrd, D-WV here).

If lawmakers were really interested in following it instead of just giving it lip service, they would have taken the time to change it to incorporate technologies which did not exist when it was written.

Some examples are to authorize the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration (having each state have it’s own air traffic control is unworkable), as well as the FCC since radio and television waves cannot be contained inside state borders.

https://twitter.com/DenbrotS/status/969053922680819712 This took too much space to print but is an analysis of the fraud DJT supposedly committed to get Electoral votes that show he stole them from Florida to win the election. The Left sincerely believes this and believes Trump will be ousted and HRC will finally get the Presidency she fairly won, when Mueller finishes his Investigation.

With your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. We as a people are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.